Viggo Mortensen quotes His role as Aragorn in 'The Lord of the Rings' Born: 10/20/1958 Country: usa

• “I definitely need to sleep more. But as they say, you can sleep when you're dead.” (Viggo Mortensen) [more]
• “Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character, and usually an improvement in your life.” (Viggo Mortensen)
• “If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.” (Viggo Mortensen) [think]
• “There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.” (Viggo Mortensen) [excuse/crazy/excuse/boredom]
• “What´s the most especial thing about being a father? Everything.” (Viggo Mortensen) [thing/being]
• “You get all these things, there are all these letters and gifts, sometimes strange ones; most of the time it can be really nice. But at the same time, it's overwhelming. Because I know I'm going to have to look through it. Most of it is filling the corners of my house and I can't respond to it all right away.” (Viggo Mortensen) [mail/gifts/strange/time]
• “I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.” (Viggo Mortensen) [waste/time]
• “I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.” (Viggo Mortensen) [think/people/position/people]
• “It comes down to the fact that you supply the blue, and they supply the other colors and mix them with your blue, and maybe there's some blue left in the painting and maybe there isn't. Maybe there wasn't supposed to be any there in the first place. So have some fun and make a good blue and walk away.” (Viggo Mortensen)
• “In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.'” (Viggo Mortensen) [movie/color/director]
• “We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone” (Viggo Mortensen) [experience/suffering/look/life]
• “I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they're with people, talking all the time. Whether it's on the phone, or in person, they're never by themselves. Whereas I could be alone for months” (Viggo Mortensen) [being/people/time/phone]
• “I've been told that I've arrived many times over the years so I take it with a grain of salt. It's a relatively new situation obviously, but if it all went up in smoke tomorrow, I wouldn't really care that much. There are a lot of things that interest me. As for my fortunes, it's really a crap shoot.” (Viggo Mortensen) [take/situation/care/interest]
• “Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.” (Viggo Mortensen) [people/nice/deadline/exercise]
• “I mean, I've been around a long time compared to a lot of other actors. I mean, I've been working on and off for 20 odd years.” (Viggo Mortensen) [time/actors]
• “I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.” (Viggo Mortensen) [find/career]
• “It's also just weird getting that much fan mail from strangers. I may just have to say that if I'm doing a book signing or you catch me on the street, then fine. But otherwise I cannot do it anymore. It takes hours everyday and it takes too much time away from other things I must do.” (Viggo Mortensen) [weird/mail/time]
• “It's one of the best roles I've ever played,” (Viggo Mortensen)
• “It's hard to be objective about it, ... But it's one of the movies I most like. It's the most complete. It really works. I know that it's probably the best movie-making experience and final result in terms of a creative, well thought out movie that's well written and well acted.” (Viggo Mortensen) [objective/experience/result/movie]
• “It brought up real emotion, real fear, a fear of not knowing what exists in me.” (Viggo Mortensen) [fear/fear]
• “there he is, I'm watching him, there he goes.” (Viggo Mortensen)
• “When you say mainstream, that usually implies mediocre. And this is not mediocre. There's probably a good chance that it could be the most widely seen of any of his movies, but he's still peeling the layers away, looking at how weird we are, looking at how strangely we look at the world, looking at how prickly we can be, looking at how paranoid we can be.” (Viggo Mortensen) [mediocre/mediocre/chance/weird]
• “It's got the same structure [as the film], in some sense, ... but the twists and turns David came up with are quite different. It's a more subtle and more layered look at human behavior, not just a pulp fiction tale.” (Viggo Mortensen) [more/more/look/human]
• “It's a simple narrative on the surface, ... The setting, certainly. And there are certain things that remind one of genre imagery that you've seen before, whether it's action movies or crime movies or Westerns. There are a lot of elements that look familiar. But it's kind of like the family itself. Everything that looks normal, in the end, isn't really. And like a lot of David's movies, at the end you say, 'Well, is anyone really normal?' ” (Viggo Mortensen) [action/crime/look/family]
• “The way we present ourselves is a veneer, and beneath that, there are a lot more unpleasant things. Other directors might have missed a lot of the subtleties of this story and made a meal out of the violence.” (Viggo Mortensen) [present/more]
• “See you at church.” (Viggo Mortensen)
• “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.” (Viggo Mortensen) [lord]
• “What keeps the film from being by-the-numbers has a lot to do with David. A lot of directors would have made an exploitation movie.” (Viggo Mortensen) [film/being]
• “[(Entertainment Weekly) -- Anyone who has seen the attention-grabbing trailer for] A History of Violence, ... Aragorn: No More Mister Nice Guy.” (Viggo Mortensen) [more/nice]
• “Lord of the Rings.” (Viggo Mortensen)
• “A History Of Violence” (Viggo Mortensen)

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